Second URSSI Workshop in Chicago, IL (October 23-24, 2018)

We are excited to announce the second workshop in the URSSI conceptualization which will take place October 23 and 24 at the Illini Center in Chicago, IL.
Similar to our first workshop in Berkeley, the event will be mostly participant driven. In addition to a few keynotes and
lightning talks, the agenda will mostly be open discussions around topics suggested by participants prior to and during the meeting.

In this workshop, we want to:

Help attendees meet each other and understand their goals

Get answers for our survey and encourage further distribution of the survey

Talk about ethnographic studies

Present a set of topics that we think will be potential areas of work in a future institute

Identify a subset of these, plus additional topics that are potentially important to the community, to discuss further

Refine, merge, discard topics

Document the workshop’s results

We want to come out of this workshop with:

An informed and enthused set of attendees (including a group photo)

A list of candidate topics for an institute, some of which may be well-understood

Thoughts on institute roles - what could an institute do to address the topics?

Thoughts on institute organization - how could an institute be organized to do this?

We welcome participation from anyone interested in issues and challenges facing research software sustainability. Specific topics can be suggested in GitHub.